4 Months!

I can not believe my baby is four months old!
Watching the miracle of human development every day is simply astounding. Four months ago Sophie was a tiny 6lb 9oz and that couldn't do anything. Now she is a whopping 14lb 3oz and can smile, laugh, play with toys, throw a fit, almost blow raspberries and bring such amazing joy into our lives.

She loves to grab her feet now!

Oh how I love watching this miracle unfold!

The raspberrie attempt!

Back in time...

Travel back with me if you will to last week. It was the day after Halloween. Just pretend that its not a week later.
Check out our little gypsy turned werewolf!

Happy Halloween from the future!

Is that a light I see?

This is how I am feeling right about now....

Though we still have some work to do Sophie's sleep issues are so much improved from about a month ago.
I have been to the grocery store twice now (not just me and Sophie yet we went with Trevor) and she sat happy as can be in her car seat almost the entire time.
I made a Wal-Mart trip just the two of us (risky I know) the other day to get a few things and she once again sat in her car seat for 30 min or more perfectly happy.
During the day she is more content to spend time just sitting playing chilling out. Most of the time even when she is getting fussy if she can see me she is happy.
I knew from the moment that I realized that Sophie was my special challenge supreme baby that someday things would get better. That I needed to endure and find joy through the valley and before you know it the top of the mountain would be there taking our breath away. And what do you know....I am breathless....



EDIT: OK so this always seems to happen I wrote the above post out a couple of day's ago....and now everything has changed we have had a few bad day's. For almost a week she magically started sleeping 1-2 hours at nap time (which I thought was due to me darking the room by putting a blanket over her window) and was doing a little bit better at night going about a 6 hour stretch and then about every 3 hours after that.
The past few day's NOT SO MUCH! Back to napping only 30 -40 min at a time and will not sleep longer than a 4-5 hour stretch at night and then wakes sometimes an hour after feeding! I am so sleep deprived and at this point have NO idea what to do......so frustrated!!! One step forward two steps back.
I love you Sophie I truly do!

This is Halloween!

We had so much fun....only four hours worth of makeup time and two hours worth of "trick-or-treating" specifically to both grandparents houses.

It was worth every minuet!

And the aftermath!

Somehow I did not get a really good picture of all three of us and any of our little werewolf baby! I will hopefully be able to post some later in the week as i know they exist somewhere in the universe!

More tradition, Yeahh!!

Here comes more fun and wonderful traditions! *jumping up and down*

Before I got married I had never carved a pumpkin. At least not that I could remember. So the first Halloween that Trevor and I were married we carved pumpkins together. I was immediately in love! Using knives...squishy pumpkin guts...thinking of something creative and scary to carve....lighting them up and turning all the lights off to watch them glow....eating roasted pumpkin seeds....wonderful!!

We have done it every year since and taken pictures of our jack-o-lanterns like they were babies. I love it. 

Obviously baby girl is not old enough to handle a sharp knife and really actually not old enough to handle a marker....but we worked it out!

Two firsts in one! Pumpkin "carving" and marker on her skin!

Later on mom and dad helped out a bit with the carving.